Kandahar Gay Scene
More news of the gay scene in Kandahar. Earlier here.
Monthly Archive: January 2002
Kinky Norwegians
Who knew the Norwegians were such kinky bastards?
Media Myth
Your picture of yourself is a media myth said Ultravox and I guess they were a little right. There’s all this guff and some definite strangeness after 9/11. People crying rivers of tears and...
Imminent Death of the Net, Again
Imminent Death of the Net predicted once again, this time due to Instant Messenging. We’ve been hearing this forever. I remember when the first AOL people arrived in the early 90s, suddenly everyone was...
The Abominable Melchett
Someone else agrees with me that the way Melchett abandoned Greenpeace was just despicable. The planet, in other words, will not be saved by wishful thinking. Without the effective regulation of both citizens and...
Adam Ant: Anyone Over 30 Belongs To Me. Bisexual, Male, Female, Gay, Whatever
Yeah Adam, whatever. Now committed to a psychiatric hospital, once upon a time Adam Ant was cool and hip. He was even the star in Derek Jarman’s wonderfully incoherent and sexy Jubilee punk movie....
Changing Of The Guard
This is a great article about the split in the Palestinian Authority between the older Arafat-aligned clique and the younger, go-for-broke types. With all the disagreements between Nationalists and Fundamentalist Islamists, it’s unsettlingly like...
Running Afghanistan Making Great Curries
So this is the Helmand Restaurant in North Beach, owned by one of the brothers of the new Afghan boss, Karzai. Earlier here.
What’s On Mullah Omar’s Stereo?
Good backgrounder on Mullah Omar: As part of the Taliban’s war on decadence, Omar had banned all forms of music, but riding in his SUV he liked to pop in a CD of Saraji,...
Ecstasy Tourism
Second part of that ecstasy tourism book, this time they’re in Cape Town, South Africa. And a review. I asked Sophie what she did for a living. “Well, Mark’s an accountant,” she announced with...